What skill sets are most useful to an incoming freshman? (computer science, skills)
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It's obvious that cognitive skills are the primary skills that one will need to succeed in college in my opinion. However, I believe that there is a great number of young men and women who are going to colleges/universities after high school who are lacking "soft skills". I believe that they are very important also and can make or break some of the younger students. Which of these skills do you think kids need to be successful other than math, reading comp., etc.? I believe that social skills ranks high up on the list.
I agree, time management and the ability to write well. I think problem solving skills are sorely lacking in kids today too...mainly because parents interfere too much--contacting teachers, etc. when there is a problem. By high school kids should be doing all of that on their own and parents should only get involved if all avenues the child can take are exhausted...but that won't happen...
Simple money management would be good too...creating a budget and sticking to it.
Definitely time management as mentioned. Also organization, which goes along with it. Another important one is the ability to accept criticism and use it to improve instead of getting all offended.
Time management. The ability to study.
Not so sure about writing skills. I did not need them for 4/5 courses.
This will depend on course of study...writing skills were critical for me, study skills were not such a big thing, because due to my major, papers were by far a more common assessment tool than exams. I had very, very few tests, almost all papers. When I would say I was "studying," nine times outta ten, that actually meant "writing papers." This would likely be different for those in other disciplines.
Time management/ability to plan well was a huge learning curve, though. I didn't find the level of difficulty to be a huge change or difference from what I was used to, but the increase in workload/ condensed time to complete it was the big change. Took some trial and error to figure out how to allot time properly.
Time management. The ability to study.
Not so sure about writing skills. I did not need them for 4/5 courses.
Really-no writing at all for 4 out 5 classes? Just because you didn't write papers doesn't mean you don't need writing skills..and like someone said "communication" skills really. Even in our son's computer science classes he still has to write, not really papers but to communicate what he is doing in class with his programming, etc.
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